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Show fitulw I'lifita from a Cemotrry. f That too ingenious person who stole bronze and marble baste from the cemetery ceme-tery of Montparnasse, touched them up and sold them as efngie-i of famous heroes, he-roes, statesmen or orators, lias at last met with the punishment which his lugubrious labors deserved. Moreau, for so the new kind of "resurrection man," to adopt the phrase of Dickens, is called, came up before the eighth tribunal tri-bunal of police, find was soon sentenced to three j-ears' imprisonment. The singular tiiefts perpetrated by Morenu in the cemetery long passed un-perceived. un-perceived. He was accordingly able to make some money by his dismal and do-ploriiblo do-ploriiblo transactions, and it is considered consid-ered probablo that many of his trans- formed bust now adorn not only tho humble homesteads of artisans in Paris, but also tho libraries and museums cf '. p:!no provincial townn. On one oceo- k Kon he is r:u to have sold the e.Tigy of "' k'"rthy profi.-F.sor of the Korboiine as ' - f a famous general of the revolu-diile revolu-diile on anot her iie passed off the . .'presentment of a departed grocer at of u Demosthenes. Paris Cor. Jam Telegraph. |